Art & Design · KS3 to A Level

Art and Design Key Terms

Every word an art department teaches, Year 7 to A Level, in one A4 book. Each key stage gets its own pages: the terms grouped the way they are taught rather than alphabetically, a definition that fits on two lines, and a drawing wherever a sentence will not do. Each key stage opens on one large labelled picture — a lit still life for Key Stage 3, a painted surface cut away layer by layer for GCSE, an interior read in four moves for A Level — and the numbers on the picture appear again beside the same words in the list. Then a page on using the words: the ones the assessment itself is written in, the false friends that mean something else in an art room, the same point written weakly and then properly, and what each word becomes at the next key stage.

13 pages 12 sections 13 free to read here

All key terms

Page 1 of Art and Design Key Terms — Page 1

Key Stage 3 · the words 1: The formal elements; Colour; Surface, pattern and print · Art and Design Key Terms, page 2 — Page 2 *Key Stage 3 · the words 1: The formal elements; Colour; Surface, pattern and print*

Key Stage 3 · the words 2: Clay and three dimensions; Looking, planning and talking; Drawing the figure; Ideas and imagination · Art and Design Key Terms, page 3 — Page 3 *Key Stage 3 · the words 2: Clay and three dimensions; Looking, planning and talking; Drawing the figure; Ideas and imagination*

Key Stage 3 · the words 3: The art room and its kit; Periods, styles and movements · Art and Design Key Terms, page 4 — Page 4 *Key Stage 3 · the words 3: The art room and its kit; Periods, styles and movements*

Key Stage 3 · the words at work: The words that earn marks; false friends; say it properly; what these words become next · Art and Design Key Terms, page 5 — Page 5 *Key Stage 3 · the words at work: The words that earn marks; false friends; say it properly; what these words become next*

GCSE · the words 1: Visual language; Media and process; Sources and investigation · Art and Design Key Terms, page 6 — Page 6 *GCSE · the words 1: Visual language; Media and process; Sources and investigation*

GCSE · the words 2: Making and recording; The course itself; The seven qualification titles; Processes the subject content names · Art and Design Key Terms, page 7 — Page 7 *GCSE · the words 2: Making and recording; The course itself; The seven qualification titles; Processes the subject content names*

GCSE · the words 3: Areas of study, and the title each sits in; The creative and cultural industries; Safe working practice · Art and Design Key Terms, page 8 — Page 8 *GCSE · the words 3: Areas of study, and the title each sits in; The creative and cultural industries; Safe working practice*

GCSE · the words at work: The words that earn marks; false friends; say it properly; what these words become next · Art and Design Key Terms, page 9 — Page 9 *GCSE · the words at work: The words that earn marks; false friends; say it properly; what these words become next*

A Level · the words 1: The language of looking; Surface and technique; Critical and contextual · Art and Design Key Terms, page 10 — Page 10 *A Level · the words 1: The language of looking; Surface and technique; Critical and contextual*

A Level · the words 2: Investigation and argument; How the course is shaped; Building the argument; The endorsed areas · Art and Design Key Terms, page 11 — Page 11 *A Level · the words 2: Investigation and argument; How the course is shaped; Building the argument; The endorsed areas*

A Level · the words 3: Materials and how they behave; Lens-based vocabulary; Three dimensions and installation · Art and Design Key Terms, page 12 — Page 12 *A Level · the words 3: Materials and how they behave; Lens-based vocabulary; Three dimensions and installation*

A Level · the words at work: The words that earn marks; false friends; say it properly; the shape of a written paragraph · Art and Design Key Terms, page 13 — Page 13 *A Level · the words at work: The words that earn marks; false friends; say it properly; the shape of a written paragraph*

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Referenced to the DfE’s national curriculum programmes of study for art and design at Key Stage 3, the Art and design GCSE subject content (DFE-00700-2014) and the GCE AS and A level subject content, with Ofqual’s GCE subject level conditions; most terms appear by name in one of those documents and the cover says how many, the rest are standard studio vocabulary; no awarding body is named, and nothing a board decides for itself appears in the A Level pages
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